HELP “Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers IN DISGUISEesus of mine, you did for me.” (mt 25:40)

The Catholic Relief Services Collection funds six The USCCB’s Subcommittee on the Pastoral Care Catholic agencies that work to serve our suffering of Migrants, Refugees, and Travelers (PCMRT) brothers and sisters around the world. Through reached out to this community of young people humanitarian aid, resettling displaced individuals during an annual gathering of Igbo Catholics in and families, and providing legal and advocacy Raleigh, North Carolina. Over 200 youth gathered services for migrants, the Catholic Relief Services to discuss their experience of culture and faith, Collection allows us to see every encounter with a voicing their difficulty finding their identity and person who is suffering as an opportunity to help engaging in their faith. As a result of this dialogue, Jesus in disguise. the youth created their own organization, finding shared struggles and a common voice. Empowered In northern Pakistan, Catholic Relief Services by spiritual guidance and peer counseling during (CRS) works with religious leaders and families retreats, these young people are now engaged in to promote education for girls. In most rural areas their parishes, serving as lectors, altar servers, and of the country, education is only available and choir members. encouraged for boys. Some girls are taught to read and write at home, but for most of the girls their WITH YOUR DONATIONS education stops there. CRS staff realized that mothers could become Feed Jesus’ hunger in suffering refugees through primary facilitators of their daughters’ education the USCCB Department of Migration and and met with groups of mothers to discuss the Refugee Services (MRS). value of education for girls. After receiving Give water to quench Jesus’ thirst in the people information and meeting with teachers, several of Bolivia and Ethiopia through the humanitarian mothers decided to enroll their girls in school. work of Catholic Relief Services (CRS). This often meant sending them off some distance to a neighboring village, but the mothers began to Offer legal assistance to Jesus in struggling play an active role in supporting and encouraging immigrants through the Catholic Legal their daughters. And they have now seen a Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC). positive change. The girls show a passion for Reach out to comfort Jesus’ loneliness in isolated school and enjoy reviewing their homework with workers through the pastoral work of the USCCB their mothers. Secretariat for Cultural Diversity in the Church. For young Nigerian Igbo Catholics in the United Advocate on behalf of Jesus in the poor and States, generational conflict presents a challenge abandoned through the public policy work of to the faith. Because the Catholic faith is the USCCB Department of Justice, Peace, and something associated with the rigid views of their Human Development. elders, many of the young people have fallen away. They struggle to integrate their new American life Send aid to Jesus in the victims of natural disasters with the African heritage passed down from their through the Holy Father’s Relief Fund. parents and elders and many no longer see the relevance of the faith for daily life.

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